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The dhantal (also called the dhandataal) is of Indian origin, but most commonly found in the Caribbean. The instrument was invented in the Caribbean by indentured laborers from India . The instrument's name literally means "stick percussion" from danda , "stick," and taal , the act of striking rhythmically.
Indo-Caribbean people in the 19th century celebrating the Indian culture in West Indies through dance and music. From 1838 to 1917, over half a million Indians from the former British Raj or British India and Colonial India , were taken to thirteen mainland and island nations in the Caribbean as indentured workers to address the demand for ...
Indo-Caribbean music is the musical traditions of the Indo-Caribbean people of the Caribbean music area. Indo-Caribbean music is most common in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique and Suriname. Indo-Caribbean traditional music often reflects the Bhojpuri heritage of many Indo-Caribbean people; women's folk songs are especially ...
Each of the European powers had imposed its own culture on the islands they had claimed. In the late 20th century, many Caribbean islands gained independence from colonial rule but the European influences can still be heard in the music of each subtly different culture. Island-specific culture also informs the music of the Caribbean.
On a brisk evening in East Nashville, Tenn., many have gathered for a back-and-forth battle of music progressives. The Red The post Sound Clash to ‘Verzuz’: the history of how Caribbean music ...
Chutney uses a mixture of East Indian classical music, East Indian folk music, bhajans and ghazals (bhajans and ghazals are religious songs), Western and African instruments, and usually the Indian musical instruments: harmonium, dholak, tabla, dhantal, manjira, tassa, and sometimes the bulbul tarang to accompany its fast-paced soca or calypso ...
East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture. Temple University Press, 2000. ISBN 1-56639-763-4. "The African Folk Music Tradition from Guyana: A Discourse and Performance". Brown Bag Colloquium Series 2003–2004. Seals, Ray. "The Making of Popular Guyanese Music"
The music of the Lesser Antilles encompasses the music of this chain of small islands making up the eastern and southern portion of the West Indies. Lesser Antillean music is part of the broader category of Caribbean music; much of the folk and popular music is also a part of the Afro-American musical complex, being a mixture of African, European and indigenous American elements.